Cor blimey

Like Dracula!

You can’t bring the time travel souvenir back with you in the time machine. You’ve got to store it in a safe cave or storage unit or something so that it’ll be at least plausibly aged by the time it reaches the future, even if surprisingly well-preserved.

I went through a handful of devices, and none of them ticked off all the boxes for me.

Now I use a Unihertz Jelly Star. It’s tiny, it has Bluetooth, Wifi, expandable memory, headphone jack, and in a pinch it’s also a phone with a camera and flashlight and so forth. The battery charges very fast, and it’s got a halfway decent external speaker. More dedicated audiophiles than me would have to weigh in on if it’s pumping out audio signal in all the right bass and treble frequencies at appropriate levels, but it does everything I wanted from a digital audio player.

Kira: Captain Boday? You want me to bring Captain Boday to your quarters for dinner?

Dax: It’s just a suggestion.

Kira: Well, it’s a bad suggestion! Number one, you used to go out with Captain Boday, number two, Worf hates him, and number three, and we’ve discussed this many times, Captain Boday has a transparent skull.

Dax: And you don’t like to see a man’s brains?

“Hey, Jesus, whatcha doing with those braided cords?”

The show is awesome, but it’s about 30% Twilight Zone, 20% Ghost in the Shell, and 50% incomprehensibly kinky fetish so esoteric that the censors didn’t know that it ought to have been censored for TV release.

I think it should be legally mandated that each studio only re-release older movies for one month out of the year. They can stagger their months or do them all the same month, but either way we could all benefit.

Ripley was right to not allow Kane back on the Nostromo.

There’s the slightest chance that there is no such person as Donald Trump, and he is in fact a projection into all of our minds by a powerful and malevolent telepath.

But that’s not a convincing proof.

We can’t have universal healthcare, but we can send billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, which does. 🤡

It doesn’t make me angry, but it does make me a little bit sad that “this is why we choose the bear” became this glib statement that was being casually tossed around. It implies that there’s a kind of gender-based fatalism at work. A bear is a bear, and a man is a man, and one must assume that the danger from the platonic concept of a bear is lesser than from the platonic concept of a man. But this isn’t, or at least shouldn’t be, a natural, inevitable state of affairs.

Men should make themselves more trustworthy than bears, and if we are being told that we aren’t, then we should be trying to think about why that is the case, and what we can do to get there.

“We choose the bear” makes it sound as if men are no more changeable than bears. It has the same feeling as “boys will be boys,” which is virtually a permission structure. When Timothy Treadwell gets devoured by bears, we can’t fault the bears; devouring people out in the wild is a normal thing for them to do. But men committing acts of unforgivable violence isn’t normal or natural, and we shouldn’t treat it as such.